In the last couple of months I have seen comments linking anime and role playing games. It is not a bad link, really, given the overlap between ‘watchers of anime’ and ‘players of RPGs’ and the influence anime and RPGs have on each other. However, it is incomplete because ‘anime’ …
In this post I will discuss material from http://www.d20openrpg.com/characters/talents http://www.d20openrpg.com/characters/talents/all-spells In the first page, John describes how Talents are categorized and their general characteristics. In the second he provides a list of specific Talents.
I take a quick look at how Threshold handles other character considerations, including resources (money and stuff) and races. Talents will be in another review. Here, I look primarily at http://www.d20openrpg.com/characters/resources http://www.d20openrpg.com/characters/races http://www.d20openrpg.com/characters/allegiance and their subpages.
In this post I review pages starting at (and under) http://www.d20openrpg.com/characters/archetypes These pages tend to be fairly content-light, so I’ll just do an overview. This section of my review may seem harsh. It is based on material that has not been completed (the number of partially-implemented archetypes makes that point …
John’s doing some fairly common things with ability scores, and a couple of interesting ideas regarding them. Related Threshold Pages For this post I’m looking at http://www.d20openrpg.com/characters/ability-scores http://www.d20openrpg.com/characters/ability-conflicts http://www.d20openrpg.com/characters/ability-challenges
Here is my commentary on the Characters page. Characters do not have Classes in the normal sense in this system. Instead, all characters share certain fundamental features and then differentiate themselves by the players choice of Talents. Player’s may instead choose a classic “archetype” that closely models normal classes if …
Responding to John’s Response I am responding to John’s response regarding my first post about his Threshold d20 site. Regarding the use of Pathfinder SRD John described why he started with Pathfinder SRD Could easily start with a snapshot of d20pfsrd.com That’s a good reason right there, lots of material …
Don’t worry, I’m not abandoning Echelon d20, or even renaming it. I’m reviewing Threshold d20, one of John Reyst’s projects. It’s somewhat similar to Echelon, and after discussion I decided to review Threshold to look for stuff I can use and provide my comments to John for his consideration. I …
Don’t worry, I’m not abandoning Echelon d20, or even renaming it. John Reyst, like me, evidently doesn’t have enough things he wants to work on. In addition to working on (and winning a silver ENnie for) d20pfsrd.org, he’s working on a d20 variant system tentatively called ‘Threshold d20‘. It seems …
So far, these articles have focused on definitions and theory. This article shows how they can used together to actually craft something. Summary of Steps Develop the setting, so the campaigns have a place to happen. Develop campaigns, so the player characters have long-term goals and to provide a general …